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ORLANDO, Fla. — A killer whale attacked and killed a trainer in front of a horrified audience Wednesday at a SeaWorld show, with at least one witness saying the animal leaped from the water, dragged her under and thrashed her around violently.
Distraught audience members were hustled out of the stadium, and the park was immediately closed.
The 40-year-old veteran trainer was one of the park's most experienced. It was not clear exactly how she died.
An audience member said a show was just starting when the whale "took off really fast in the tank, and then he came back, shot up in the air, grabbed the trainer by the waist and started thrashing around, and one of her shoes flew off," Victoria Biniak told WKMG-TV.
But Jim Solomons of the Orlando County Sheriff's Office, said the trainer slipped or fell into the whale's tank, which seemed to contradict Biniak's description.
Authorities provided few immediate details, but two witnesses told the Orlando Sentinel that one of the park's whales grabbed the woman by the upper arm and tossed her around in its mouth while swimming rapidly around the tank.
It is interesting that the Sheriff says she "fell in the pool' where the witnesses say the Whale snatched her up and shook her around like a prey Item.
Set the Orcas free.
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Killer whales in captivity will eventually do what they are born to do! Have you guys ever seen a few of them in a pack of seals? Its almost hard to watch! They kill to survive, and putting them in a tank will not stop their instincts. If you ran out in traffic every day, one day you would be hit. And it would NOT be the drivers fault for hitting you. So, If you get in a tank with a KILLER whale every day. One day you are going to get it. And it's not the whales fault for eating you. You have choices in life, and when one of them bites you in the ass, you can't blame anyone, or anything else. Leave wild animals in the wild. and when they are in the wild don't poke at them or try to play with them. Instinct is to survive at all costs.
Go watch the video's out there of these "whales" chasing seals up on to the beach, out of the water, and tell me who in their right mind would get in the water with them?
Killer Whale Kills Trainer at Sea World! 
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